So is 12 Years a Slave crass?

I agree that this is tired material and that it shouldn't be retrodden.
In other AV Club news tonight - Stargate's back, baby! Dr Doom's back, baby!
Rocko's Modern Life's back, baby!

I don't see how it'd be possible to make a TV show about hard-right, slave-owning Confederates without making them look like shit.

And his brother Joseph a Union general.

It's like if Paul Ryan and Johnny Depp merged into one being.

Amahl Farouk… “can seductively hold court on any topic and in any language,”

Man Getting Hit By Football?

What they haven't mentioned yet is that the new Dr Doom is a lady.

This comment gave me a migraine

Oh for a second I thought you meant Dr Kevorkian and I got all excited and shit

8 Simple Commandments

I was just wa-wa-wa-wa-wondering that myself

The film is fiction, Kate.

The first comment? No, I didn't edit that one. I edited the second because it was just yours with the "fantasy from history" part changed, and I regretted writing it.

That's all true. My comment is perhaps an oversimplification (as well as shamefully lacking an umlaut). There was definitely a sizeable portion of at least one generation who were happy enough to pretend Nazism simply hadn't happened. Chancellor Kiesinger had been a Nazi also.

Halle Berry, Katy Perry, Joe DiMaggio
Dengue Fever, Justin Bieber, Despacito
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

*Halliteration

Jesus Christ. This looks a tad excessive to me, and I'm a Scotsman with a whisky-themed tattoo.

What's dumb about it?

'Thinking Out Loud' is very similar to 'Let's Get It On' by Marvin Gaye and is currently the subject of a lawsuit. 'Shape of You' is based on TLC's 'No Scrubs'; he credited them and acknowledged this after he'd released the song. Earlier this year, he settled a copyright lawsuit over claims that he'd copied a Matt…